G06F 2009/4557
Distribution of virtual machine instances
Official title: {Distribution of virtual machine instances; Migration and load balancing}
G06F2009/4557 (Distribution of virtual machine instances) appears on 5,587 US grants and 6,329 published applications in this corpus.
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- 6 Oct 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Virtual machine live migration with direct-attached non-volatile memory express device6 Oct 2026US 12,754,752 B2Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Translation of API requests for connection between network management system and managed datacenters6 Oct 2026US 12,754,753 B2VMware, Inc.
- Fine-grained virtualization resource provisioning for in-place database scaling6 Oct 2026US 12,754,772 B2Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Facilitating workload migration in data centers using virtual machine management29 Sep 2026US 12,748,611 B2NVIDIA Corporation
- Provisioning images to deploy containerized workloads in a virtualized environment29 Sep 2026US 12,748,613 B2VMware, Inc.
- Method for updating at least one program of firmware of a protection or automation system in the field of electrical energy transmission and distribution8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310447 A1Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
- Architecture of a multi-cloud inspector for any compute type8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310795 A1Wiz, Inc.
- Live migration method for virtual machine, and device, and system, and storage medium1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299983 A1Cloud Intelligence Assets Holding (Singapore) Private Limited
- In service migrations in multi-tenant environments1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299984 A1Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Migration of virtual machines1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299985 A1Arm Limited
Most cited
By later US patents
- Architecture for managing I/O and storage for a virtualization environment668US 8,601,473 B1Nutanix, Inc. · 2013
- Provisioning of computer systems using virtual machines590US 7,577,722 B1VMware, Inc. · 2009
- System and method for allocating datastores for virtual machines515US 9,134,922 B2VMware, Inc. · 2015
- Dynamic virtual port provisioning496US 9,535,737 B2BladeLogic, Inc. · 2017
- Virtual machine change block tracking427US 9,983,936 B2Commvault Systems, Inc. · 2018